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Psalms 37:6

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he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

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Verse 6. Foolishness, or sin. Shame has made me conceal the state of my soul; and hence evil has increased. Saint Jerome and so forth Calmet.—The poisoned wound has infected other parts which were sound: ( Worthington.) chaburoth denotes sores, or “wounds still fresh or mortifying,” ( Bible.) rather than scars. Menochius.—All sin is properly styled foolishness, as no prudent man should commit any. Orig.

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